Myriahedral projections are a new class of methods for mapping the earth. The globe is projected on a myriahedron, a polyhedron with a very large number of faces. Next, this polyhedron is cut open and unfolded. The resulting maps have a large number of interrupts, but are (almost) conformal and conserve areas. A general approach is presented to decide where to cut the globe, followed by three different types of solution. These follow from the use of meshes based on the standard graticule, the use of recursively subdivided polyhedra and meshes derived from the geography of the earth. A number of examples are presented, including maps for tutorial purposes, optimal foldouts of Platonic solids, and a map of the coastline of the earth.

OpenScales is a Open Source (LGPL) mapping framework based on ActionScript 3 and Flex. It has been designed for building Rich Internet Mapping Applications easily.

This imbalance is unhealthy. It leaves Google with almighty power and the user with little. It is impossible for a user not to be part of this exchange, unless he doesn’t connect to the Internet.

— a development environment for making digital art

Field is an open-source software project initiated by OpenEnded Group, for the creation of their digital artworks. It is an environment for writing code to rapidly and experimentally assemble and explore algorithmic systems. It is visual, it is hybrid, it is code-based. We think that it has something to offer a diverse range of programmers and artists.

Based on ideas started at the MIT Media Lab, Field was in development in-house for around 6 years. But for the last 16 months it has been quietly available online as an open source project. We are pleased to announce the initial "beta" binary open-source releases for Intel-based Macs OS X 10.5 or 10.6.

VertexDB is a high performance graph database server that supports automatic garbage collection. It uses the HTTP protocol for requests and JSON for it's response data format and the API is inspired by the FUSE filesystem API plus a few extra methods for queries and queues. It's implementation is currently built on top of TokyoCabinet and libevent.

Elevation is a free, open source route visualizer that renders personal GPS data in 3D space, built in Processing by Dave Shea.

make art est un festival international dédié au Logiciel Libre et Open Source (FLOSS*) et contenus ouverts dans les arts numériques. make art propose des performances, des présentations, des ateliers et une exposition, situés au croisement de l'art et de la programmation de logiciel. L'événement est dédié à tous les artistes programmeurs libres, open hardware hackers et autres fétichistes de la ligne de commande.

This series of abstract data visualisation represents the source code structure and work progress of a software collection. The intention was to represent the sheer volume of work put into open source software development and usually by a smal number of people.

Vanilla is an open-source, standards-compliant, multi-lingual, theme-able, pluggable discussion forum for the web.